What's your collection/work area like?

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What's your collection/work area like?
A complete and utter mess. I am lucky to find myself when I am in there.
But I love it.

My wife has the spare bedroom in our condo. Even if I wanted to move in there I couldn't. Her scrapbooking stuff is all over the room. I have a spot in the basement that is all mine. I built myself a table for working. It's basically two cabinets with a piece of plywood on top. I built the cabinets to meet my needs, one has a paint "organizer". I am currently in the process of replacing the paint organizer with a box that can be taken upstairs to help keep the paints the right temp. My desk is pretty much a wreck most of the time. But hey it's my own little space. Although when we get a house I refuse to be in the basement.

Chris

very modest compared to my 4 1/72, 2 1/35, 1 ship, 1 plane, 8 accesory sets. (guys, spare afv equipment and weapons)

QUOTE: wow Erock! that's a neat workplace! are those boxes empty? what do you do with empty boxes? you throw them up or save 'em for reference?

The boxes on my workbench are those I am currently building. The ones in the cabinet are unopened (my modest collection compared to some around here )

wow Erock! that's a neat workplace! are those boxes empty?
what do you do with empty boxes? you throw them up or save 'em for reference?

I use a spare bedroom that is 8' by 10'. I have an unfinished wood computer desk that I use for model building. Unfortunately, I store my bikes, unused SoloFlex, rollaround tool box, extra clothes, art easels and storage shelves, all my guitars, basses and sound equipment in there as well. So, I am always tripping over something or having to move things around to build....

Regards, Dan

I have an area in the basement set aside for modelling. Got my spray booth, model dryer, airbrush setups, and kit storage within arms length of one another. I have a set of drawers behind me with paints and accessories. No pics yet.

About five years ago, my wife and I bought a house which was plenty big for two adults and a Lab that spend alot of time outdoors. 2 small boys later and I found myself insulating, sheetrocking and laying floors in the attic. Two thirds go to the boys and their thousands of Thomas trains, and I'm left with the rest. I just finished the airbrushing area, complete with a 350 cfm shaded pole motor vented to the outside. It's already sucked up a couple of Aber PE parts and sent them to oblivion. The room's not finished but I couldn't hold off on a 1/35 r/c tiger I from Tamiya. I've been sitting on that and Jentz's book since Xmas frothing at the mouth to begin an early Carius tiger.

When I lived in California, I simply threw an old soil amendment advertising poster face-down on a slab of plywood atop a pair of plastic 15-gallon nursery pots (the black ones they sell trees or large shrubs in) and called it my workbench. It was OK, but the pain and some of my tools were inconvenient to get to as they were several feet away in a drawer (to keep them away from the cat). When I moved to Arizona, my former roommate gave me a bookshelf-like piece of furniture. I fixed it so it wouldn't wobble, glued some white poster board to the shelves and front so it would look nicer (and less messy than applying a new coat of paint), then I screwed the aforementioned piece of plywood to the top. I then placed a three-drawer "lamp table" (as I called it when I had insulators on it and they were marked on a location chart) so that all the tools and paint are right within arm's reach yet the cat can't get at them with the drawers closed.

Haha, I can imagine what you mean Michaelvk. See there'd be just one tiny problem with me putting my modeling things where others can get at them. I don't WANT any others to get at them, the mere thought of it makes me flinch uncontrollably :)

I wish I could post some, but no digital cam at the moment. All money went on buying models.
That's quite a nice 'mess' you have there Erock. at least you can see the surface of your desk :)
Kennethc, I was actually planing to have the same kind of setup on my machine, since I have a couple of spare PCs lying around the house. Good luck finding a reasonably priced used LCD. They're not cheap, even used.

Comon, we need to see pics of your messes....I mean, work areas


Here is my workspace, located in the bedroom. My computer and reference books, are on the other side:


As for model storage, I have them in a cabinet, in the garage:
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I use the spare room in my house, Its about 5 x 11. I have an old drafting table as a work bench, file cabinet, 6 foot high metal shelving unit, and my tool and paint chest. At the end of the room is a 4 foot table with my computer on it...
When a project gets out of control I start taking over other rooms in the house... I do all of my painting in the Kitchen my compressor...(10gal) is under the kitchen sink. Its nice and out of the way.
This area works well though I would like to move my computer somewhere else at some point... Though it is nice because I have a lot of ref pictures on my computer so I just have to turn and look at them while I am working. I have a dual monitor card so I am trying to find a used LCD monitor to put up on the wall in front of my desk so that its a little more conveniant...
All my reasearch materials are at a study desk in the living room that way I can keep SOME of the clutter out of the shop.

My kits (about 100 or so) are stored in a cabinet off the kitchen...

Dream shop would be about three times as big with cabinets to hide all the stuff thats out and about...

The one thing I hate about having a hobby area (or 'puter) in a guest room is that its off imits when you have guests.. Most annoying, as its unlikely you can get an extra 15 minutes of drybrushing done while they're sleeping..

When we moved to H*&%%@$ ,T*@! they were gracous enough to give me a small workbench in the garage it measures about 20'' wide by 14'' deep with one floresent light and two cabinates to store all of my stuff in as for models i am on a limited buget and have only one that i was given by an uncle waiting to be built.

I recentely moved shop to my basement-an old workbench is where it is now
I have all my paints in easy to reach locations, and my finished/half-finished/and spares are close by.
I like it, and it works out great.

I work on the desk in my room. It has 3 drawers witch is filled with junk. All my equipment is in a plastic organiser. And wait for it, I have a wopping ZERO kits waiting to be put together. On Sunday i might get 1 [all depends on what i get for my b-day]

Keep well.

My wife and I have turned the guest bedroom of our apartment into a hobby/work room. On wall is the my hobby table which is a medium length folding table, on the oppsite wall of that is the computer desk, and one side is the small guest bed, and on the other is the second TV. Normally I work at the hobby table while my wife plays..I mean works on the computer. The only time she touches the hobby table is to use something for her scapbooking, or to help me find something that I've lost. Right now on the table is a Monogram P-61 ready to be painted with Old Silver then painted black. The table is also covered with a mess of other unfinished kits, old sprues, tools, and partly completed a 1/72 Mitchell. Need to get that P-61 done for it takes up alot of space.

hehe, I thought I was the only one ArmorMaster. I have an exact setup of my 'spray booth'. took me a couple hours to build, but it works fine. leaks a little, but I only airbrush acrylics, so it's not so bad

I'm with M1. My desk does double duty. I did add space by taking a counter cut out from a sink($1 at Lowe's) and putting it on top of a pair of stacked storage tubs. It's about level with the desk and doubles the size!! Kit wise I've got something like 90+ unbuilt or unfinished kits. Mostly AC 1/32, 12ish 1/48, same number of 1/72 and 2 dozen 1/144, and a dozen each of Star Trek, ship and armor kits.

We added on to our home about 8 years ago. With the addition I got a 8x12 model room for myself. It's off the garage. I have a metal desk to work on, and a high table I made myself were I air-brush stuff. I have a hard-wired vent fan that I run when painting or using obnoxious solvents. I don't get total use of all the space as I have some household and automotive junk stored in with my modeling equipment. All in all it's an ok set-up. When the wife wants me she beeps me on an intercom I have set-up. I have about 80 un-built car kits stored up, plus the 30 un-built armor kits I collected since I started armor about one year ago.

Glenn

yikes i found his modelling area. NEAT and TIDY!! My desk is an old computer desk which i took over, my unbuillt kits are underneath it and all my stuff is or around the desk.

i have an old computer desk in my "hobby room", which is nothing more than oversized walk-in closet in the master bedroom. The desk has some shelves and is nothing fancy, but holds all the goods. I presently have about a 14 or so kits in various stages. All my finished are on a bookcase, but someday i intend to put up some shelves and store them there.

I am in the basement. I have a old door converted into my workbench. I am in the process of re-aranging my work area,so it's a mess. I hope to be settled sometime this spring.
mark956

My work area is in the corner of my gaming room. It's on a cheap old pool table that doubles as a ping-pong and airless air hockey table. I have planks of thin wood covering the table, for the most part, and Behind the couch are all of my old model boxes and dioramas that were unfinished. My paint storage is really just a huge tackle box that holds all my paints and foliage stuff. My airbrush booth is just a bunch of duct-taped pieces of cardboard with a hole cut in the back for a computer fan to vent out the stuff (which doesn't work well and my cats run for cover when I even open a paint can!) A venting hose blows the fumes out the window along with a sloped roof in the booth. My Dad thinks I'm running a drug lab when I airbrush and the fumes just leak out of the room and into the house! I really don't have that big a collection but I do have about ten Dragon soldiers kits that have either been started and never finished or unopened. I also keep all my tiger boxes that I make, so I have about seven just stacked up left with nothing but old cut out sprues. I have three unfinished dios MIA behind there too. It's really a mess, but it's where I create it all and I just have fun doing it!

"We've done so much with so little that soon we'll be able to do anything with nothing..."

Is that our 'workspace' motto? Sounds like it! LOL. I can identify with the board across the lap to be sure! ... as well as no work or storage space.

Ron

hi guys
i have a huge desk in our study (i share a 2 bedroom flat with my girlfriend) with a glass top protecting the wood underneath. i tend to use just the instruction sheets as my base therefore. the desk is also home to the pc monitor and keyboard so evry now and again i have to "clear the decks".
our flat is short on storage space, and the one floor to ceiling cupboard we have for vacuum cleaner etc is now shelved from waist up to ceiling with all my unmade kits...around 50 the last time they were "audited" (by my girlfriend![:0]).
...it works for me, but i dream of moving to a big house with a gigantic attic conversion all for my hobby stuff....ah well....
regards,
nick

At the moment I got a small Desk next to the PC where I model. Spraybooth takes about half that space.

After that move I will get a Corner PC-Desc right next to the Balcony door, Spraubooth will be vented via the Air-con venting hole.

While my work area won't increase it will be ditier and better organised. Compressor will go under the Table where the PC-Tower should sit. Additional holders and small shelfs will be attached to the Shelf for the Printer and the Key-board drawer will be converted into a slim drawer to hold my sculpting and other tool collection.
3 lights will be attached left/right and above of the workarea.

Next to the Modeling desk will be floor to ceiling shelf to hold the finished Kits or atleast in the space allocated by my Wife.

Mines a shambles.. I'm literally all over the place. This week I'm on the end of the sofa (right across from the telly) with a plank of wook across my lap. I'm amazed I get anything done, really. I would love a designated area, but thats not on the cards for a while.